Simple Health Tips

Many serious keto dieters are discouraged from drinking any alcoholic drinks while on the regimen. This is because while such beverages do help enhance the advancement to a state of ketosis, they will slow down the weight loss effects. It can also be potentially harmful to the liver when done together because alcohol places additional stress on the liver metabolic process. However, many keto practitioners do not shun alcohol drinks and say that it is still possible to have your drink while on this very specific diet. The important thing is to make the right choices on the types of beverages that you consume. Here are some keto friendly alcoholic drinks that have the seals of approval of keto experts. Straight Spirits These drinks are taken straight up and without any added flavorings and embellishments. Such include whiskey, rum, vodka, gin, tequila, cognac, scotch and brandy. To illustrate, a shot of vodka contains less than 100 calories and absolutely no net carbohydrates....

New research offers yet another reason to avoid sugary drinks. A Harvard-led study in the journal, Circulation, found people who drink two or more sugar-sweetened beverages a day have a 31 percent higher risk of early death from cardiovascular disease. Each additional soda, sports drink, or sugary beverage increased the risk by 10 percent. "Previous research has shown that sugar-sweetened beverages are associated with things like diabetes, weight gain, heart disease and stroke but what we didn't really look into was the increased risk of mortality or death," CBS News medical contributor Dr. Tara Narula told "CBS This Morning." "This research really did show that the more sugar sweetened beverages you drink, the higher the risk of death, primarily from cardiovascular death but also from cancer deaths, as well." While Americans have been drinking fewer sugary drinks, such as soda and sports drinks, over the past decade, they still represent the s...

High-sugar beverages such as soda are uncontroversially unhealthy, and their regular consumption is causally associated with a variety of adverse health conditions, including coronary heart disease and diabetes. The recognition of this association has led to an increase in the popularity of beverages with alternative sweeteners. The health effects of artificially sweetened products are less clearly understood and remain an active area of research, which unfortunately for rational scientific discourse means the topic also makes for effective clickbait and scare claims. One example of that phenomenon comes from the website “Skinny and Healthy,” which posted an article headlined “Drinking One Diet Drink Daily Can Triple Risk of Dementia and Stroke.” Like most citation-free science clickbait, that article primarily consisted of a copy-pasted press release, in this case for a 2017 study published in the journal Stroke which has been reframed in a way to suggest that the results were m...